Just another weblog from Moonson Ghats

Author: Farhan Parkar

If I had told you last decade that “Virtualization” would become one of the most spoken topic and most of the organisations would consider virtualizing their environments, you would have laughed at me. But such has been the impact virtualization has created this decade that it has become commonplace in computing. In the present scenario,…

Some vendors in the storage, hyper-converged, and cloud industries may be playing Russian Roulette with their customers’ data. Solutions are not created equally, some turn off basic data integrity features such as data checksum by default, or when there are performance problems. Some don’t have background consistency checks and scrubbing to protect against silent data…

Acropolis File Services (AFS) is a software-defined, scale-out file storage solution that provides a repository for unstructured data, such as home directories, user profiles, departmental shares, application logs, backups, and archives. Flexible and responsive to workload requirements, AFS is a fully integrated, core component of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform. At both of our .Next…

In previous versions of Windows Servers, a cluster can be created only between member nodes joined to a single domain. Windows Server 2016 breaks down these barriers and introduces the ability to create a Failover Cluster without Active Directory dependencies. The following configurations can be deployed to create the Failover clusters Single-domain Clusters: Nodes from…

There is news in the backup world today. Rubrik has acquired startup company Datos IO. Who is Datos IO? Datos IO was founded in 2014 and focuses on copy data management of distributed scale out databases purpose built for the cloud. The reason Datos IO is different from the common backup solutions we’re accustomed to…

In addition to the support of Nutanix clusters that use Nutanix native AHV hypervisors, HYCU introduces the support for Nutanix environments that use VMware ESXi hypervisors. By using the native Nutanix storage layer snapshot technology, VMware snapshot stuns are avoided.

While virtualization has been here for more than 30 years, it had a larger outreach over the last decade with top technological companies having their own hypervisors, VMware, Microsoft for example. With emergence of multi-core processors and increasingly dense memory, workloads have grown tremendously thus paving way to a number of hypervisors and cloud technologies.…